Military intelligence operative, Ukrainian Armed Forces Colonel Ivan Beziazykov, freed from the militants’ captivity in the summer of 2016, has been detained on suspicion of collaborating with the so-called “DPR”.

According to her, four persons in civilian clothes came to detain her husband. They showed the search and arrest warrant reading that Ivan Beziazykov was suspected of collaborating with the militants of the self-proclaimed "DPR".

"Being a prisoner of the illegal armed group of the self-proclaimed "DPR" intelligence directorate", he joined the aforementioned detachment and served there as the first deputy head of the human intelligence department," the warrant reads.

He was taken to a detention center and provided with legal aid. The court is going to choose a pre-trial restriction against him on Dec. 13. He can be held in custody for 72 hours before the court hearing.

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